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If you need a crowd, office life at Edward Jones Investments probably isn’t for you. Instead of housing employees together in centralized offices, the financial planning firm maintains thousands of small offices across the the U.S. and Canada manned by one financial adviser and one office administrator — with close to 300 offices in the Houston metropolitan area alone. The idea...

Insperity is in the business of creating great workplaces for its clients, providing a suite of human resources services ranging from health care benefits to recruiting help. So it’s probably no big surprise that the Kingwood company, which teaches its own clients to be better managers, placed No. 3 on the Chronicle's Top Workplace survey. The ranking is based on surveys...

Evidence of employee revelry is scattered about the office of Improving — Houston. There’s the beer pong trophy won during a retreat in Vegas. Taps for pouring craft beer during monthly happy hours. And “Star Wars” movie posters from when employees got a private pre-screening. Such camaraderie undoubtedly makes Improving — Houston a great place to work, but it isn’t the main...

If there’s one thing LGI Homes CEO Eric Lipar hopes to avoid, it’s employee turnover. To achieve this, the publicly traded homebuilding company based in The Woodlands ensures all its employees have clear goals, training and support. The builder’s commitment to employees’ career development helped it claim the No. 5 spot among midsize companies in this year’s Top Workplaces list...

More often than not, the first part of an earnings call is filled with dull, number-laden monologues read by company executives. Camden Property Trust starts its calls with trivia. In the minutes before the calls begin, the company plays a song or series of songs for the participants waiting on hold. The first listener to email the company with the song title and artist or...